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How to Summon Siri on Your iPhone
When you first set up the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, you have the option of turning on Siri. If you did so, you’re good to go. If you didn’t, tap Settings→General→Siri and flip the switch so that On is showing [more…]
What Kinds of Questions Can You Ask Siri?
The beauty of Siri on your iPhone is that you don't have to follow a designated protocol when talking to her. Asking, “Will I need an umbrella tomorrow?” [more…]
Settings to Make Siri Smarter
From Settings in the Siri app on your iPhone, you can make Siri smarter, customize her to your own preferences. For example, tell Siri in which language you want to converse. Out of the gate, Siri was [more…]
How to Voice Dial without Siri on Your iPhone
With a feature called Voice Control, you can take advantage of voice calling (and some other functions too) with an older iPhone that doesn’t have Siri. If you have an iPhone that predates the 4S, you [more…]
Edit, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Suggest on Your iPhone
Although your iPhone has a self-correcting keyboard that will fix many errors as you type, you will need to manually correct those errors that slip through. Being able to copy and paste text [more…]
Your iPhone Photo App's Tap to Focus Feature
When composing your shots, you can take advantage of the Tap to Focus feature on your iPhone. Normally, the camera focuses on a subject in the center of the display, which you’re reminded of when you momentarily [more…]
How to Capture Panoramic Shots on Your iPhone's Camera
In some situations, you need the panorama feature in iOS 6 (iPhone 4S and 5 only). This feature lets you shoot up to 240 degrees and stitch together a high-resolution image of up to 28 megapixels. [more…]
Where to Find Pictures on Your iPhone
So where exactly do your pictures hang out on the iPhone? The ones you snapped on the iPhone itself end up in a photo album appropriately dubbed the camera roll [more…]
How to Share Photo Streams on Your iPhone 5
An impressive and aptly named solution for sharing photo streams called Shared Photo Streams arrived on the iPhone with iOS 6 (and a bit earlier on Macs running OS X Mountain Lion). The feature lets you [more…]
Picture Controls on Your iPhone
You can take advantage of the photos on the iPhone in several ways. In each case, you tap the picture and make sure the picture controls are displayed. Then tap the action [more…]
How to Play Video on Your iPhone
The iPhone is not going to replace a wall-sized high-definition television as the centerpiece of your home theater, even on the larger 4-inch screen of the iPhone 5. But on that glorious widescreen display [more…]
How to Shoot and Edit Video on Your iPhone
The 3GS was the first iPhone to let you shoot video. Then the iPhone 4 joined the video party. More recently, the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5 took the device to new heights. [more…]
How to Open Web Pages from Safari on Your iPhone
The iPhone has two ways to determine websites to suggest when you tap certain letters. One method is the websites you already bookmarked from the Safari or Internet Explorer browser on your computer. The [more…]
How to Zoom In on Web Pages on Your iPhone
If you know how to open a web page on your iPhone, it is radically simple for you to zoom in on the pages so that you can read what you want to read and see what you want to see, without enlisting a magnifying [more…]
How to Run a Google Search on the iPhone
Although you can certainly use the virtual keyboard to type google.com, yahoo.com, or bing.com in the Safari address field, Apple doesn’t require that tedious effort. Instead, you tap into Google, Yahoo [more…]
Smart Safari Settings on Your iPhone
You can protect your privacy through Settings on your iPhone. Along with the riches galore found on the Internet are places in cyberspace where you’re hassled. You might want to take pains to protect your [more…]
How to Set Up Corporate E-mail on Your iPhone
The iPhone is friendly for business users, in large measure because it makes nice with the Microsoft Exchange servers that are a staple in large enterprises. [more…]
How to Set Up E-mail Accounts on Your iPhone
To use the Mail app on your iPhone, you need an e-mail address. If you have broadband Internet access (that is, a cable modem, FiOS, or DSL), you probably received one or more e-mail addresses when you [more…]
How to Get Messages on Your iPhone
To get your mail messages on your iPhone, tap the Mail icon to summon the Mailboxes screen. At the top of the Inboxes section is the All Inboxes inbox, which as its name suggests is a repository for all [more…]
How to Manage Messages on Your iPhone
When a message is on your iPhone screen, you can do many tasks in addition to reading it. Check out the figure for the location of the controls. [more…]
How Threaded Messages Work on Your iPhone
Apple lets you thread messages on your iPhone, or have Mail automatically group related missives. The beauty of this arrangement is that you can easily trace back an e-mail conversation. [more…]
How to Send an All-Text Message from Your iPhone
To compose a new e-mail message on your iPhone, tap Mail on the Home screen to open the Mailboxes screen or whichever screen was up when you last left the app. To create a new message, follow these steps [more…]
How to Send Photos with Text Messages from Your iPhone
When a picture is worth a thousand words, you need to know how to send an e-mail message with a photo enclosed from your iPhone.
Apple made this process simpler with the iOS 6 upgrade. After addressing [more…]
Customize Your Settings for Sending E-mail from Your iPhone
You can customize the mail you send and receive on your iPhone in lots of ways. Here, you explore settings for sending e-mail. Start by tapping Settings on the Home screen. [more…]
Settings That Affect Checking and Viewing E-mail on Your iPhone
Several settings affect the way you check and view e-mail on your iPhone. You might want to modify one or more, so here are descriptions of what they do and where to find them: [more…]
